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This post explains how to find the local data folder location for running U-SQL scripts locally in Visual Studio, which changed between versions of the Data Lake Tools.

Meta-Runners allow you to easily create reusable build components for TeamCity, in this post I demonstrate how to create a Meta-Runner to wrap ILMerge functionality.

Learn how to authenticate against Azure Resource Manager using PowerShell, for fully automated deployments.

Microsoft have added SHA256 support to Signed XML, and Endjin.Licensing has been updating to take advantage of this breaking change.

January 2016 browser stats -- a year on from our first report. Chrome now commands nearly 70% among developers, Edge has appeared at 3%, and IE11 dominates what remains of IE usage at 87%. The era of the modern browser has truly arrived.

We've reached our first milestone - a whole year of publishing Azure Weekly. To celebrate we're giving away stuff!

We've built and open-sourced a Visual Studio Extension that provides basic support for discovering and running CucumberJS tests with Node.JS, in the Visual Studio Test Environment.

In this post, Mike Larah discusses how to ensure your C# collections are thread-safe, only run-once, and are lazy-loaded.

A year ago Jess was in a sunny coffee shop in Perth, Australia. Now he's one month into endjin, and his first in-person encounter was in a sushi bar in London.

Consumption based pricing is a one of the USPs of Cloud PaaS services, but the default settings aren't necessarily optimised for cost. Significant savings can be made from understanding your workload.

Running a start-up or bootstrapping a new product within an established business can feel pretty chaotic. We talk about strategies for managing the time of a team, and ensuring that you become predictable.

Technologists often get hung up on technology and forget about the customer (and the business!) We talk about a real-world example and some practical advice for getting your idea business-focused.

At endjin we love Gherkin for everything from unit tests to UAT. Setting up CucumberJS for JavaScript BDD in Visual Studio 2015 with Grunt is straightforward.

Azure Machine Learning's SMOTE module helps balance imbalanced training data by generating synthetic samples, improving model accuracy for multi-class classification.

In the early days of a start up, the organizational structure is defined rather loosely, and typically by function. The technical founder has her domain, the sales & marketing founder his, and they work closely together to achieve their initial goals. As an organization grows, it is not possible to maintain that level of detailed personal control. How does a growing business structure itself for innovation? Or a larger organization pivot and allow an innovation culture to develop?

Explore Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell Desired State Configuration for provisioning and configuring Azure virtual machines.

We recently completed a technical proof of concept to see if the new Azure Batch service could scale to meet the demands of a Big Compute workload.

Azure Machine Learning provides a drag-and-drop GUI for building predictive models, then publishes them as web service endpoints: no data science background required to get started.

Azure Stream Analytics ingests live data through Event Hubs and queries it with a time-aware SQL variant, making it ideal for real-time fraud detection, sensor monitoring, and clickstream analysis.

Azure HDInsight brings Hadoop to the cloud, distributing big data processing across cluster nodes so you can analyse clickstream, financial, or IoT data without maintaining on-premise infrastructure.

Git has powerful extensibility points, which you can harness to automate your dev inner loop. In this post we examine how to use Git Hooks to reduce the occurrence of merge conflicts.

We use SpecFlow to write integration tests against Azure. In this post we share an Open Source SpecFlow extension for the Azure Storage Emulator.

A CDN, short for Content Delivery Network, is essentially a network of servers set-up, in various geographic locations, with the aim of speeding up the delivery of content to end-users across the Internet.

Everything in Azure runs in Coordinated Universal Time; learn how to deal with Daylight saving time in Azure Automation, so your jobs still run on time.

You don't need to be a data scientist to surface insights from Azure Table Storage. Connect Power BI directly, import the data, and start visualising trends.